Francois Gouget wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > >> How is that really different than this. >> >> http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings >> >> The Maintainer rating system is meant for "supported" applications. > > > That's the thing. There is no such thing as a 'supported application' in > Wine, at least the way I understand 'supported': > * there is no garantee a 'supported' application will continue to work > in the next version of Wine. That's because Alexandre does not try each > 'supported' application to make sure it still works before making a > release. > > * there's no Wine hacker to fix a 'supported' application if it breaks. > Having an application maintainer for each 'supported' application is > important and a first step towards making sure it will continue to work. > But it's not sufficient. If it breaks it will need a Wine developer to > look into it and debug it and I don't see any one proposing to do it or > able to garantee this. > > * There's no garantee that a Gold application will not regress to > Silver, Bronze or even lower. > > * And finally I don't see any Wine hacker proposing any specific > 'support' for the 'supported' applications. > > So these 'supported' applications are no different from any other > application and the medals mean nothing more than the old rating system. > They just have 4 levels instead of 6. >
I think having more than 3-4 levels is too much by the way; it's much too hard to rate an application in such small quality steps. As for application that could regress from gold to another rating, I think that's not a problem as when a maintainer rates an application he states what version of Wine he was using (next drop down box after the maintainer rating). I even started to track an history of application ratings for the apps I maintain: each time I retest an application I update the application rating AND the history table so that someone can figure out that an application was working better with an older wine release. See here for examples: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1533&versionId=2230 http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=2&versionId=764 Maybe we could add a feature that'll keep track of maintainer rating automatically and produce an history table like the one I'm adding to the application version descriptions automatically. Le jeudi 27 janvier 2005 Ã 00:00 +0100, Francois Gouget a Ãcrit : > > If it was up to me I would eliminate the the user rating. (But thats me.) > > I would not be strongly opposed to this. > I would eliminate this rating too (both with/without windows).
